Re: [PATCH/RFC 7/9] Virtual network guest device driver

Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-22T17:06:28Z

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 10:00:42AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> >I'm not opposed to supporting emulation environments, just don't make
> >a large pile of crap the default like Xen -- and having to integrate
> >PCI probing code in my guest domains is a large pile of crap.
>
> Exactly. I'm about to start a pretty large project here, using xen or
> kvm, not sure. One thing for sure, we are NOT going to use anything
> but PV devices. Full emulation is nice, but it's just plain silly if
> you don't have to do it. And we don't have to do it. So let's get the
> PV devices right, not try to shoehorn them into some framework like
> PCI.

If you don't care about full virtualization kvm is the wrong project for
you. You might want to take a look at lguest.